This paper surveys the recent body of work in economics on the importance of global value
chains (GVCs) in sha** international trade flows and production patterns. On the empirical …

This chapter reviews the empirical economics literature on the impact of trade liberalization
on firms' innovation-related outcomes. We define and examine four types of shocks to trade …

We show that skill requirements in job vacancy postings differentially increased in MSAs that
were hit hard by the Great Recession, relative to less hard-hit areas. These increases persist …

The labor share in US manufacturing declined from 61% in 1967 to 41% in 2012. The labor
share of the typical US manufacturing establishment, in contrast, rose by over 3 percentage …

Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from US manufacturing fell by 60 percent
despite a substantial increase in manufacturing output. We show that these emissions …

Command-and-control environmental regulation is a traditional environmental policy that is
still widely used in develo** countries. This study examined a rarely discussed but …

This chapter focuses on the estimation and interpretation of gravity equations for bilateral
trade. This necessarily involves a careful consideration of the theoretical underpinnings …

This paper links the sharp drop in US manufacturing employment after 2000 to a change in
US trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries more …

We advance a two-stage theoretical model which contends that the export performance of
emerging economy firms (EEFs) will depend both upon their firm-specific capabilities and …

Research in international trade has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, as
attention has shifted from countries and industries towards the firms actually engaged in …